“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

your existence, you

 

The mood was strange.

 

couldn’t take their eyes off one

 

of them would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite

 

almost chest

 

must be my appearance you’re at

 

There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much better-looking than you

 

you doing here, then?

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

 The man came closer, as if there was still space left between them. “Visit her

 

participate in the stupid

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him

 

man was twice her size, but he

 

where I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as

 

had been heating up for a while now, and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple clutching each other tightly and

 

Sad and hopeless

 

eyes turned

 

a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from

 

somehow, that woman smiled at me—a

 

chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face

 

The woman was me.

 

Borgia, that’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I

 

man and the woman vanished and I lost myself

 

***

 

white shining right into my eyes had me twitching, trying

 

I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to the bed I

 

I? Who got me here? What happened

 

I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm

 

I wanted to cry.

 

to see him safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no words coming from

 

leaving

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater

 

voice was low and hoarse, almost a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why didn’t

 

thinking of anything. It felt like it didn’t really matter,

 

done in this life, all

 

a stranger in my own body thinking about it

 

the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse

 

“What…?”

 

time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was

 

knew very well, something that had

 

wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

it wasn’t me

 

situation where I’m hated without doing anything. I can’t

 

traveled around his eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed

 

such a silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing at me with that same brokenhearted look in his tired

 

me fully, enveloping me in his warmth,

 

I moved instead, putting my own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his

 

why my head

 

I didn’t remember

 

Because it’s not your fault.

 

arrogant man, I

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